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THE FORUM DAILY

Tonight marks the start of Passover, a story of liberation from bondage
and persecution - with a migration through the desert along the
way.  

Elements of this story resonate today - whether you're Jewish or
not. Our friends at HIAS have great resources
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from persecution with the more than 100 million people who have been
forcibly displaced around the globe today.  

And in the Gotham Gazette,
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American Jewish World Service global ambassador Ruth Messinger writes
powerfully on this theme: "For me, the Passover story is a story about
human rights, about the intrinsic right of every person to flee harm at
the hands of an oppressor - and about the fundamental responsibility
each of us has to see those from another land ... as human beings worthy
of our concern, compassion, respect, and love."  

Chag Sameach to those celebrating, and may all of us move from bondage
- literal or figurative - toward freedom. 

Welcome to Wednesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan Gordon,
the Forum's strategic communications VP, and the great Forum Daily
team also includes Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez, Clara Villatoro and Katie
Lutz. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send
it to me at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>. 

**PROTESTS** - Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Canadian
Public Safety Minister's office Tuesday in Toronto, reports Molly Cone
of Reuters
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They called for the end of an asylum treaty between Canada and the U.S.
after eight people drowned as they tried to cross the nations' border
in search of asylum and refuge.  

**INVESTIGATION DEVELOPMENTS** - Three Mexican immigration officials,
a private security guard and a Venezuelan migrant will be held as part
of the investigation following the tragic fire that killed 40 migrants
in a Ciudad Juárez detention center, per the Associated Press
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**OPPORTUNITY TO FLOURISH** - Florida's 10-year-old law that allows
undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at state colleges and
universities has been a boon to the state, writes Sam Scott, interim
president of the American Business Immigration Coalition, in a Sarasota
Herald-Tribune
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op-ed. "Treating the children of immigrants just like our own children
- and keeping higher education within their reach - is the right
thing to do both morally and economically," he writes. 

**NATIVE TONGUES** - The Los Angeles Community College District is
offering tuition-free instruction languages other than English for
vocational classes or courses that help prepare immigrants for their
GED, reports a team at the Los Angeles Times
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"We're beginning the process in community colleges of redefining the
relationship between language and higher education," said Gabriel
Buelna, a member of the district's board of trustees. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan

 

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